linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/Kconfig: correct description of DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:41:45 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/Kconfig: correct description of
 DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> The description mentions kswapd threads, while the deferred struct page
> initialization is actually done by one-off "pgdatinitX" threads. Fix the
> description so that potentially users are not confused about pgdatinit threads
> using CPU after boot instead of kswapd.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

This was an oversight when I moved to using kernel threads to do the
initialisation instead. Thanks for catching it.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs